Chapter 1 – Coup D'état
Bastila stood defiant on the Bridge of the Domination. She stood her opponent down.
"You cannot win Revan," she declared.
Suddenly the ship shook and the bridge was ripped open to space by the turbolasers of Malak's ship. The atmosphere of the bridge blew out into open space. Bastila fell to the ground and, with the help of the force dug her fingers into the metal of the bridge, she didn't care about Revan now, she only cared about not being blown into space. Then the blowing stopped and the ships emergency forcefields closed around the hull. Bastila got up, cold, numb and shaking and looked around. Revan was nowhere to be seen.
Revan looked around her. If it weren't for her mastery of the force she would've long been dead. She was in the cold of space. Her energy shield protected her from the cold and a force trance negated her need for air for the time being and lowered her blood pressure so that she would not explode in the zero pressure environment of a vacuum. She had one thought in mind "Get Malak, the betraying bastard!"
Using the force she propelled herself in the direction of Malak's ship the Deceptive Heart. Luckily to strike the Domination he had to bring the Deceptive Heart very close to the Domination so Revan could make the trip to Malak's ship in short time. Her life signs were too insignificant to be noticed by the Deceptive Heart's sensors in the middle of a battle so Revan remained undetected.
Revan landed on the hull of the Deceptive Heart and using her lightsabre, that wasn't lost, thank the force, cut a hole in the hull of the ship and climbed into against the blast of air escaping. She had just climbed in when emergency forcefields kicked in. She breathed in deep. "Ah!" she exclaimed as though air had been a luxury she was long denied.
On the bridge an alarm klaxon blared into life.
On the bridge an alarm klaxon blared into life.
"What is that?" asked Malak as he swiftly turned about to a lieutenant.
"Intruder alert sir" his human lieutenant reported.
"Revan!" Malak exclaimed to himself, "She survived.
"Where is she?" Malak quizzed the lieutenant.
"Who sir?" Asked the lieutenant in confusion.
"The intruder you fool!" Raged Malak.
"The intruder is on deck 13 heading in the general direction of the bridge" replied the lieutenant apprehensively.
"Lieutenant Asto!" Ordered Malak, "contact our main battalion of sith knights and station them outside the bridge. Then station the
secondary battalions across decks 1 to 4. Then send security forces to intercept the intruder!"
"Sir is that not a lot for one intruder?" asked Asto in disbelief.
"Just do it", screamed Malak as Asto shrunk in fear of the Sith Lord.
Malak knew these forces would not stop Revan but they would slow her down and tire her out." Asto send the orders to the security detail and watched on the security screen as the intruder took the turbolift to DeckSeven before he cut power from the system.
Revan's turbolift shook as it stopped. She prised the doors apart and exited onto the deck. She sensed people were approaching and just then 6 security officers wielding high energy laser rifles appeared around the corner. She force pushed the leading two officers into the following four knocking them all into a pile. She walked calmly over to the pile of officers keeping them down with the force and then frying them with a blast of force lightning.
"Oh Malak" thought Revan " Is that all you have?"
Revan continued climbing through the ship until she got to DeckFour wheretwo Dark Jedi intercepted her.
"Revan! You're journey ends here!" exclaimed a Dark Jedi as; with lightsabres ignited they both rushed her.
Revan easily parried the first assailants blow and slid her lightsabres down by the dark Jedi's in the block and diagonally cut his torso in two. The next dark Jedi made a direct stab at Revan's chest which Revan blocked and drove her sabre into the Jedi's chest killing him instantly. "Well that was boring" Revan shrugged.
She continued up to deck 1 easily beating sith being thrown in her path in a desperate attempt to stop her. She forced the doors of the bridge apart with a blast for the force and sent them flying back into the walling.
"Malak" Revan shouted "You ungrateful little schunta! What did I teach you
about always finishing what you start!"
Malak stared his former master down with a seething hatred.
"But don't worry, it will be your last mistake." Revan continued.
"Revan" Malakshot back"if you spent as much time watching your back as you did making speeches you wouldn't be standing here right now would you?" Malak asked rhetorically.
This infuriated Revan even more and she ran for Malak at the centre forward of his bridge. Malak quickly ignited his own sabre in defence and parried Revan's stab.
"Revan, you look tired," taunted Malak "let me put you to rest."
Malak began to take an offensive on Revan as the rest of the bridge crew watched the battle of the two sith lords unfold before their very eyes. Revan began to tire quickly. She had battled Dark Jedi and troopers on her way to the bridge and she was greatly drained by her unexpected space flight. Revan parried blow after blow but was quickly being backed up out of the bridge. She was near her breaking point now and Malak knew it.
A thought ran through Revan's mind: She was a fighter, yes and she never gave up, but she wasn't a fool either. If she wanted to live and to beat Malak down like the treacherous dog he is she would have to leave to fight another day. She summoned the last of the force she
could and force pushed Malak back to the front of the bridge. With adrenaline coursing through her she turned and ran into the turbolift. She willed energy back into lift system through the little force she could summon and proceeded directly to the shuttle bay.
The shuttle bay was quiet absent as any fighter pilots were already engaged in battle and everyone else was at battle-stations. She boarded the nearest shuttlecraft and took off from the Deceptive Heart. She plotted a course to one of the planets currently under her
control. She wasn't worried about being caught when Malak took over as no one except about 3 people knew her real face and none of those would be on the planet she was currently headed to. She lay back and began to rest. This was one of the most draining days of her life and
she needed sleep above anything.